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Images from the
May 22-24th 2009 Amberlea Meadows Dressage Show - Gold Show
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Champion |
Horse |
Champion's Average Score |
Reserve Champion |
Horse |
Reserve Champion's Average |
Prize |
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Junior |
Elexis Ortlieb |
Harrison |
67.752% |
Rebecca David McIsaac |
Rills Carrick Fergus |
66.541% |
Horselife Saddlery Cooler |
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Adult Amateur |
Sheila Duchek |
First Light |
69.905% |
Wendy Cameron |
Celestial Sapphire QS |
69.905% |
Dressage Boutique Cooler |
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Open |
Sanna MacFarlane |
Zoey |
71.340% |
Sanna MacFarlane |
Pilar W |
70.510% |
High Mark Agencies Cooler |
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FEI |
Crystal Kroetch |
Lymrix |
67.566% |
Lindsay Seidel Wassenaar |
Oslo |
67.500% |
Tophat n' Tails Cooler |





A recent email
to Amberlea Meadows addressed to Ellen:

Hi Ellen,
I'm sure you don't
remember me - it's been about.. Oh, 22 years...
(Wow), but I was
walking down memory lane in my head today and I thought maybe I
would send you an email. When I was six years old my mom and I
drove past a field of horses, and I went nuts. I wanted to ride
SO badly. Even though she (my mom) was really scared of horses,
she set me up with some beginner’s lessons with you (she stayed
in the car most of the time!).
I remember clearly
my first lesson at Amberlea with you. I rode Ben, who was old at
the time so has surely passed by now. Anyway, I remember walking
in the mud for maybe the first time, and learning to tack up,
and just being so incredibly excited.
You were a strict
teacher but you took me seriously even at 6 years old. For some
reason I remember you saying "I want smooth and creamy! Not
chunky peanut butter!" during one of my lessons and that made me
laugh. I can't even remember how long I rode with you - maybe a
couple years. Then I moved to another area and found a new barn.

Well I stuck with
riding my whole life. I would say that horses pretty much raised
me. I live in BC now and I have my own horse (who is a terrible
brat, but also quite lovely) and I teach riding lessons to
beginners and kids with autism.
I guess I just
wanted to say thank you. There is no way to really say it in a
strong enough way. You really changed my life. Horses have been
by far the best thing in my world. Now as a teacher I know how
trying little kids can be sometimes and how tempting it is to
just get their lessons over with :) I am sure that if you
hadn't put the energy into me that you did, my sticking to it at
age 6 with a mom who wasn't into it just wouldn't have happened
and I would have missed out on so much.
Best,
Cindy
PS- attached is a
picture of me with some students, and then a picture of my horse
Abby
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